Free agency in NBA 2K27 has been improved to capture the high-stakes drama of the real-world NBA offseason.

The Moratorium Period & Pitching Max Players

Before free agency officially opens, you’ll sit down with marquee max-level free agents to make early pitches and lock in commitments before the free agency window opens.

Top-tier free agents will take various factors into account when they receive max offers from multiple teams. To convince a superstar to sign, you'll need to offer attractive contract perks and make binding promises during negotiations:

• Roster Demands: Max players can demand general roster influence, ask you to promise to sign or retain a close friend or Dynamic Duo partner, or demand that you trade away or refuse to sign a personal rival.
• Lifelong Loyalty Promises: In real life, top-tier free agents always get max contracts. New to 2K27, we’ve expanded the tools you have available to see what you can use to convince a player to join beyond just the simple dollar amount.
• Performance Bonuses & Incentives: Structure contracts with performance incentives based on individual or team milestones (such as making All-NBA, winning Defensive Player of the Year, or reaching the Conference Finals). Incentives are evaluated as Guaranteed, Likely, or Unlikely, directly impacting your cap space based on real CBA guidelines.

During the free agency moratorium period, a brand-new menu acts as a scrollable depth chart showcasing the best available players at each position. This lets you quickly identify positional scarcities and monitor which top players are flying off the board, ensuring you know exactly when and where you need to strike fast. 

To keep you fully informed throughout the process, we’ve also added daily recap screens that highlight major signings, provide league power rankings, track the remaining high-value talent, and deliver a final offseason summary detailing the biggest winners and losers across the league.

Building a champion requires more than raw talent; it requires credibility and locker room harmony. In 2K27, we revamped player morale and introduced GM Trust.

Morale, Personality Clashes, & Dynamic Duos

The morale system now actively tracks long-standing friendships, intense rivalries, and complex personality traits across the league's top players. These relationships develop naturally based on real-world factors. Friendships can organically build from a shared history—such as playing together internationally, in high school, or in college—or even just hailing from the same hometown area. Conversely, rivalries are forged in the fire of competition. A player repeatedly knocked out of the postseason by the exact same opponent will harbor a very real grudge, bringing extra fire and intensity to those matchups, especially in critical playoff elimination games.

Personality also plays a massive role in your team's success. Clashing mentalities—like trying to pair two demanding Alpha Dogs or forcing a Keep It Real player to coexist with a "Pat My Back" teammate—can create severe locker room friction and actively derail your team chemistry. Players that have personality mismatches will build chemistry more slowly, and lose it more quickly if you start to lose.

On the flip side, building strong bonds pays massive dividends. When two star players maintain a high Friendship rating (50+), they officially form a Dynamic Duo, which allows for an even bigger OVR improvement. Sharing the floor with a Duo partner grants both players dynamic attribute buffs during games. If you take it a step further and three top stars share an elite friendship, they form a true Big 3, unlocking maximum team-wide boosts as long as they stay together.

Earning & Losing GM Trust

As the general manager, you’ll now maintain a dynamic Trust rating starting at 50. Your Trust rating dictates how believable your promises are during free agency negotiations and directly impacts locker room morale.

Governor Directives span all MyNBA modes; complete MyGM tasks in MyGM, secure player extensions, and re-sign your own free agents to increase your Trust. Conversely, breaking promises or trading players on multi-year contracts causes your Trust to drop. If your Trust plummets, top free agents will refuse to take your contract promises at face value, forcing you to overpay to secure talent.

We spent a significant amount of time addressing the top feedback from the MyNBA community, integrating highly requested administrative tools and roster management features. Our focus was to rebuild the core elements of MyNBA and support the evolution of the sport through these changes. Here are just 21 examples of the many exciting updates we made in 2K27:

1. Expand your trade negotiations up to four teams simultaneously, with the asset cap increased from six to nine assets per team.
2. Negotiate contract buyouts with veteran players on expiring deals and hunt for late-season additions on the dedicated Buyout Market.
3. Experience the realistic roster-building constraints of the CBA's Second Apron, including trade restrictions and tax penalties for high-spending teams.
4. Added 75 additional historic courts in MyNBA Eras.
5. Eurostash contracts have been on ice since NBA 2K24, but they’re returning in 2K27 after receiving some significant improvements. To give players the version they deserve, we had to go under-the-hood and rewrite the system to offer a more authentic and enjoyable experience.
6. MyNBA’s All-Star Weekend has been updated to reflect the NBA’s modern format.
7. Added the new 3-2-1 lottery system and all of the smaller, minor details included. This is also now available as a rule change, as well as a historic change if starting before the Modern Era.
8. Added new styles of playoff series home/away games for 5- and 7-game series. We now support straight alternating home and away, as well as 2-2-1 for best-of-5 series, and alternating, 2-2-1-1-1, and 2-3-2 for best-of-7 series.
9. Added players’ birthplaces and high school to their information. This is used in helping determine if players should have starting relationships with each other from being in the same region, high school, or college.
10. Added the ability to add in cash considerations for trades. This includes both making sure it’s an asset that can be added to the trade menu and proper evaluation by team as to how much the cash is actually worth.
11. Added a new setting to disable historic changes; this will prevent things like new expansion teams to be added, rule changes, or rebranding as long as disabled. Then later, if re-enabled, the new historic changes will occur from that point forward.
12. Changed it so heaves at the end of a quarter count for team attempts, but don’t count as a shot attempt if missed.
13. Added a new rule change that, if a team calls a timeout when they have none left, if they should keep or lose possession, plus the technical.
14. Allow for better matchup comparison when at neutral locations, such as the final NBA Cup (In-Season Tournament) game.
15. Added the NBA Cup to player histories, so it can now be tracked for both players and staff.
16. Added support for variant cities for the NBA Cup (In-Season Tournament), so we can have both the real location in Indianapolis this year, but also support having it in previous years in Las Vegas, as well as a historic change to account for the change in venue that will occur automatically.
17. Added a rule change for Clutch Player of the Year.
18. Added limited 10-day contracts to both the NBA and WNBA.
19. Improved the first apron’s effects so it better matches the CBA.
20. Fixed an error in tiebreaker rules. These are very important because any deviation between how we calculate the play-ins and playoff tiebreakers and the real-life NBA could cause Start Today to break if they come to different results.
21. Improved how we calculate defense when affecting shot probabilities—now there’s an inherent cap to how much they can potentially interfere. This does not impact shooting odds when playing in-game on the sticks.

League customization reaches new heights in 2K27 with the Rule Change engine.

Front offices are no longer restricted to five rule proposals per offseason. You can now explore, review, and vote on an unlimited number of pending rule proposals across broken-down categories. The updated interface provides detailed historical context, descriptions, and custom sliders for every proposed change.

To complement our 100-year franchise window, you can now create Historic Draft Playlists. Easily line up sequential historical draft classes to automatically populate your league across decades, or randomize player entries to create alternate-reality draft classes for endless replayability. There are a few ways to get the most out of your replay, and they can be mixed and matched:

• Loop: If you hit the end, you’ll start from the beginning of the playlist.
• Shuffle: Players are randomly dispersed from the total players pool, leading to randomized draft classes without duplicate players.
• Reverse: Use classic draft classes, but go in reverse.

Continuing our commitment to making MyNBA as authentic as possible, we’ve brought back even more retro arena floors and classic uniforms. We've also taken that historical accuracy a step further behind the scenes: each era now features updated contract-length rules that better mirror the real-world Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) in effect during that specific time period.

The headline addition to MyNBA in NBA 2K27 is MyNBA Legacy, a single-player, player-locked mode that bridges the gap between running the front office and dominating on the hardwood; whether you’re committed to writing the next century of NBA history, or looking for a casual sandbox experience, MyNBA Legacy has something for everyone.

When you start a MyNBA Legacy save in the Modern Era, you can pick any player to be your Legend, with the option to play with their current attributes and badges, or revert them back to their rookie form to potentially earn more XP by completing statistical milestones. From there, you play as both the general manager executing front-office operations and the locked player on the court. Because MyNBA Legacy is a single-player sandbox, there are no artificial limits: you can grow your player into an absolute stat-sheet-stuffing cheat code.

Attribute Progression, Training Camps, & Badges

In MyNBA Legacy, progression is driven by your performance and strategic planning. Instead of standard rating increases, you earn experience by hitting per-game stat goals, securing season awards (such as MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, or Rookie of the Year), making deep playoff runs, and chasing down all-time career statistical records. Complete statistical milestones by playing, simulating games, or a combination of both.

As you continue to earn XP, eventually you’ll increase your Legend’s tier, giving two main benefits: Badge Tiers and Performance Points:

• Badge Tiers: Level up your badges to unlock higher tiers. As an example, Tier 14 is the Legend tier with 1 Legend, 5 Hall of Fame, 12 Gold, 8 Silver and 8 Bronze badges. Tiering up to 15, G.O.A.T. instead gives you 3 Legend, 7 Hall of Fame, 10 Gold, 10 Silver and 10 Bronze badges. You can freely change, swap, and upgrade badges whenever you like, so feel free to experiment and see what works best.
• Performance Points: XP converts to Performance Points in a ratio of 1:1, but can be freely spent to make your Legend better. The main thing to buy are Training Camps that give a permanent increase to specific attribute suites like Outside Shooting, Playmaking, or Perimeter Defense. In addition, there are a ton of special Bonus Abilities you can buy to improve your Legend and also give benefits to their legacy. The full list can be found below.

The goal for any legacy is to hit Tier 30—Eternal G.O.A.T. tier where every badge is a legend badge. A tough ask for a single player, a Legend can buy Bonus Abilities to pass along to their family tree to make each player’s start bigger and better, and hit Eternal G.O.A.T. through a legacy’s hard work.

Bonus Abilities

As noted above, you can spend your hard-earned Performance Points on standalone Bonus Abilities, unlocking game-changing perks like ultimate injury protection, infinite stamina, and highly favorable contract terms. Check out the full list of upgrades below:

Legacy Bonuses

• Family Skills: Choose any of your badges. All of your current Legend’s future kids in the run will inherit that badge and level.
• Private Lessons: All of your current Legend’s future kids will start with an additional training camp.
• Legacy: Choose any other non-legacy Bonus Ability you have. All of your current Legend’s future kids will also inherit that bonus ability.

Player Health

• The Long Haul: Your legend will no longer receive career-ending injuries.
• Protected: An improvement of The Long Haul, instead your Legend will no longer receive major injuries that would end their season.
• Immune: An improvement of Protected, instead your Legend will no longer receive any injuries of any kind.
• Hyperbaric Therapy: All players in MyNBA experience regression every year after a certain age, where their physical attributes decline. In MyNBA Legacy, you can prevent this by having your player have a certain number of training camps to fight regression and keep their attributes permanently. Hyperbaric Therapy reduces the number of camps required here by 1 for each time acquired.
• Limitless Stamina: Your Legend’s maximum energy doesn’t deplete over the course of the game, allowing them to play huge minutes without issue.

Player Improvement

• Training Camp: The heart of MyNBA Legacy attribute progression; more detail above.
• Pave the Way: Improve the potential of all of your Legend’s future kids by 5. Each new kid can purchase this again, allowing for stacking future potential. Potential determines how expensive training camps are, so having maxed potential will save a ton of Performance Points in the long run.
• Legendary Skills: Immediately gain a new Legend-tier badge.
• Offering: Permanently disable a specific badge for your Legend and their kids. In exchange, gain a permanent boost to XP gained from most sources.
• Hardware Collector: Gain more XP from winning personal accolades like MVP.

Miscellaneous

• On-Court Coach: Just like the fan-favorite badge in MyCAREER, your AI teammates will instantly listen to you when you call for the ball or command them to shoot.
• Sim Baller: Improves XP earned by 20%. This bonus temporarily goes down in the season for each game you play on the sticks, resetting back to 20% next season.
• Team-Friendly Deal: Your contract only costs 85% of its actual market value against the cap.
• Anything for a Ring: Your contract is always locked in at the league minimum, freeing up maximum cap space to help build a superteam.
• Limitless Stamina: Your stamina no longer depletes during games, keeping you perfectly fresh from tip-off to the final buzzer.

Ultimately, MyNBA Legacy is all about cementing your all-time greatness. A few of these elite Bonus Abilities are even specifically designed to let you pass your hard-earned skills down to the next generation, ensuring your impact on the league lasts long after you finally hang up your jersey.

Generational Legacies & 100-Year Franchise Runs

In 2K27, we've increased the number of years players can play before retirement from 24 to 25. In addition, we’ve expanded the playable franchise length from 80 years to 100 years in MyNBA, MyGM, and MyNBA Legacy. For MyNBA Legacy, players can retire and move on to their son’s career, meaning you can play four 25-year careers, or five 20-year careers. 

When your legend's career eventually comes to an end, the journey doesn't stop. You can choose to pass along your legacy to your player’s child. Through a stacking progression system, future generations inherit a portion of their parent's starting badges, training camp bonuses, and special abilities. Whether you play for one franchise or several over the course of your career, if you win championships your descendants will start their careers with massive permanent bonus points, giving them an unprecedented head start on their own path to immortality.

For elite Managers who reach Eternal G.O.A.T. status, 2K27 introduces up to 20 scaling difficulty modifiers:

1. Ranked: Play with ranked settings enabled.
2. Tougher Goals: Season Excellence goals are more difficult.
3. Stifled Potential: Lower your potential rating.
4. Injury Risk: The Long Haul bonus is no longer free and must be acquired.
5. Automatic Max: You’re always forced to sign a max contract.
6. Early Peak: Attribute regression begins at a younger age.
7. Inflation: The costs of training camps increase by 10%.
8. Gym Fees: The Limitless Stamina bonus costs three times as much.
9. Vocal Haters: Finals MVP voting is unfairly based only on your worst game of the series.
10. The Hard Road: In the offseason, you’ll be forced to go to a team low in the power rankings you haven’t won with yet.
11. The Long Road: More XP required to tier up, meaning slower badge progression but a higher ceiling you haven’t won with yet.
12. Voter Fatigue: Each MVP you have already won lowers your MVP vote share in future races.
13. Coach’s Orders: Head Coach knows best. Your first training camp is randomized.
14. Limited Trades: You can only complete 10 trades in a season.
15. Too Many Opps: Playoff opponents start hot in all elimination games.
16. The Hardest Road: In the offseason, you’ll be forced to go to the lowest team in the power rankings you haven’t won with yet.
17. Father Time: You’ll need an additional training camp per season to prevent the effects of regression.
18. Tough Critics: It’s tougher to win MVP and Defensive Player of the Year.
19. Few Trades: You can only complete five trades in a season.
20. Above and Beyond: Career legacy goal targets are increased by 25% across the board. XP awarded stays the same.

These challenging options add fun twists, such as strict trade caps, severe voter fatigue in award races, and forced worst-game weighting in Finals MVP voting to test your skills to the absolute limit.

In MyNBA Legacy, you have total creative control. You can freely edit Attributes and Badges, letting you bypass traditional progression rules to build your superstar exactly how you see fit. But if you're chasing ultimate bragging rights, step into Ranked Mode. This highly competitive arena locks you into a strict, standardized ruleset, ensuring your legacy is built on pure skill and determination.

MyNBA in NBA 2K27 isn't about sitting back and watching simulation numbers roll by, it's about taking complete control of the Association.

Whether you're carving out a century-spanning family legacy in MyNBA Legacy, navigating the tightropes of the modern CBA, or forging an iconic Big 3 to dominate the league, the power is entirely in your hands.